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WEDNESDAY EVENING, 7:45. 



The President : You will please come to order. For fear that 

 there may be sonic here who were not presenl this morning, I want 

 to make the announcement that Governor Carroll will speak to- 

 morrow evening. I also want to announce that the Legislative 

 Committee for the ensuing year will remain the same as last year, 

 as follows: E. R. Shoemaker. Chairman; W. W. Marsh. Judge 

 W- B. Quarton, Hon. B. F. Newberry, and F. A. Leighton. 



We have with us tonight a gentleman representing a paper which 

 has done and is doing a great work for the benefit of dairymen all 

 over the country. Mr. A. J. Glover of Hoard's Dairymen will ad- 

 dress you. 



ADDRESS. 



A. J. GLOVER, IT. ATKIXSOX, WIS. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen. — It is not necessary for me to 

 say that this meeting, this show, and this exhibition of dairy and farm 

 machinery are very pleasing. I am not prepared to give you as good a 

 talk as you deserve. In fact, I have had no preparation, but I do want to 

 say as other speakers have said and will say that you are to be congrat- 

 ulated upon the splendid sentiment you are expressing here in behalf of 

 the dairy cow. You have a young show, and you don't know where it 

 will lead you. It is only the beginning, we hope, of something bigger and 

 greater. I hope it will grow to be larger and better than the National 

 dairy show. I know of no state whose people could become better dairy- 

 men than the people of Iowa. You have been feeding beef cattle and hogs, 

 and I am glad to see that a new industry has been born among the peo- 

 ple of Iowa. 



In the taking up of the dairy cow, friends, you have a new thing. She 

 will not stand the same treatment, the same care that your beef steer 

 will. She has a different function to perform, and I want to dwell a little 

 upon the function of he dairy cow. I do it for the reason that I have 

 heard it remarked: "I don't believe in the dairy cow because she is not 

 hardy. She has not a constitution that will withstand hardship and cold. 

 She is weak." I want to analyze her to see if that is a true way to 

 look at the dairy cow. In the first place, the dairy cow's function is to 

 produce milk and not beef. In adapting herself to the eating of feeds 

 and converting them into milk she is performing a function that is differ- 

 ent than any other animal on the farm. She is a mother once a year, 

 and motherhood requires special care at the time of parturition. The 

 dairy cow gives up to you every day a large amount of nourishment. 

 Does the beef steer? No. The steer utilizes his feed within his body, 

 therefore the function is different and requires a different sort of treat- 

 ment. The dairy cow wants a barn that is warm, well ventilated and well 



